The Consortium’s long-term goal is to reduce pollution by ensuring that industry and government pollution reports are accurate, credible and understandable, so that the true state of pollution related to energy development is widely acknowledged and incorporated into public policy and decision-making.

Since forming, the Consortium has exposed systematic non-reporting and underreporting of oil pollution in the Gulf, inadequacies in the government’s reporting and response mechanisms, and lack of hurricane preparedness in the Gulf’s oil and petrochemical industries. To learn more about this work, visit the Gulf Monitoring Consortium website.